Where is my data currently being stored?
Local Authorities hold your personal information in order to provide services to you. Information on school attendance and attainment, criminal offences, benefits, employment, health and care is collected routinely by Government Departments.
Who is my data being shared with?
Your data will be shared with a research organisation called the National Institute of Economic and Social Research (NIESR). NIESR will ask Government Departments to match identifiers such as names and dates of birth to the data they routinely collect to measure your progress. The data will be transferred, handled and stored and securely destroyed after the completion of the research project in accordance with the Data Protection Act.
Why is my data being shared?
The reason for linking the information is to help the Government and local service providers understand whether or not the programme and reorganising service delivery has been effective in turning around the lives of families.
How will this affect me?
It won’t affect you personally. The data used for the research will be anonymised so no one will be able to identify you and results about the success of the programme will be reported at group level.
The results will not be used to make any decisions about the service you currently receive and will not affect any benefits, services or treatment you may be entitled to.
Who is the data controller and data processor for this?
A Data Controller means a person who (either alone or jointly or in common with other persons) determines the purposes for which and the manner in which any personal data are, or are to be, processed.
Example
A government department sets up a database of information about every child
in the country. It does this in partnership with local councils. Each council
provides personal data about children in its area, and is responsible for the
accuracy of the data it provides. It may also access personal data provided by
other councils (and must comply with the data protection principles when using
that data). The government department and the councils are data controllers in
common in relation to the personal data on the database.
A Data Processor in relation to personal data, means any person (other than an employee of the data controller) who processes the data on behalf of the data controller.
Example
A utilities company engages a company which operates call centres to provide many of its customer services functions on its behalf. The call centre staff have access to the utilities company’s customer records for the purpose of providing those services but may only use the information they contain for specific purposes and in accordance with strict contractual arrangements. The utilities company remains the data controller. The company that operates the call centre is a data processor.
For current specific projects being funded by central government:
National Institute of Economic and Social Research (NIESR) will be the data processor for the matched data provided by Government Departments.
Government Departments will be the data processor for the matched data they provide to NIESR.
Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG) will be data controller for the matched data and anonymised dataset created from the matched data provided by Government Departments.
Last updated: 29/09/2016 11:39
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